This past weekend Rich Gossage was inducted into the baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown.
Imagine for a moment Holy Name had a sports Hall of Fame?
Athletes and coaches.
Basketball, baseball, track and field, cross-country, soccer, swimming…(Am I missing anything)?
Intramurals DO NOT count…
You had to have played a sport where you actually put on a uniform and [...]
Archive for the ‘Baseball’ Category
HOLY NAME SPORTS HALL OF FAME
Posted in Baseball, Holy Name, Rich Gossage, Sports, tagged Holy Name, Sports, Baseball, Hall of Fame, Rich Gossage on July 29, 2008 | 11 Comments »
OLD-TIMERS DAY
Posted in 1968, Baseball, C.Y.O., Holy Name, tagged Baseball, Holy Name, Old-Timers Day, Sports on July 25, 2008 | 6 Comments »
With the Mets and Yankees doing very well and with it being the summer, I will continue with the current baseball/softball theme.
Did you ever attend Old-Timers day at Shea or Yankee stadium?
I recall a few of them back in the day where I would see some of the former players come out and strut their [...]
HAPPY FATHER’S DAY
Posted in Baseball, Father's Day, tagged Baseball, Father's Day on June 15, 2008 | 20 Comments »
I wanted to send out a sincere, short Happy Father’s wish day to all the dads of Windsor Terrace and to those who read the blog who have children.
As a proud father of a nine year-old daughter it’s such a joy to be able to help shape and mold a young, innocent child into something [...]
HARDBALL
Posted in Albert Plantamura, Baseball, Holy Name, Joe Farrell, John Cain, Mr. Mussa, Parade Grounds, Prospect Park, The Lot, tagged Baseball, C.N.N., Cork, Little League, Major League baseball, Mr. Mussa, Parade Grounds, Prospect Park on May 30, 2008 | 28 Comments »
I was watching C.N.N a couple of nights ago and there was a story about Major League Baseball wanting a Little League in Chicago to change the names of their teams because of some sort of ‘licensing fee’. Click here for the story via the Herald News.
Because the uniforms didn’t feature official major league [...]
THE LOT
Posted in Baseball, Holy Name, tagged Field of Dreams, Kevin Costner, Parade Grounds, Sandlot, The Lot on January 14, 2008 | 21 Comments »
I was watching the film, ‘The Sandlot’ the other night. It’s about a few boys who love baseball and play every day and like all boys ages 12-15, have different stories from their life; yada, yada, yada.
I thought back to the days as a youngster and our baseball experience for Holy Name. We didn’t [...]
